Cabinet shelving



April 4, 1933. E. DAMPIER ET AL CABINET SHELVING Filed May 2, 1931 ATTORNEY 2o stallation.

Patented Apr. 4, 1933 IUNITED STATES PATENTIOFFICE LEON E. DAMPIER, or SAN JOSE, AND BOLY H. DAMPIER, or SAN irA'rEo, canmomvra CABINET SHELVING Application filed May 2,

food placed upon the shelves.

A cooler of the type referred to is built as an integral part of the building in which it is placed, and it is usually but some twenty inches or less in both depth and width, and is accessible from one side only.

In order to make the best use of available space in the cooler various types of revolving shelving have been installed therein, but

. they have heretofore been of such a form that an excessive amount of labor has been required to effect their proper installation. Furthermore they require a number of fittings and assembling devices that add materially to the cost of production and in- Again, they are so constructed that the individual shelves cannot be readily removed for cleaning without disturbing other shelves and without manipulating certain fastening devices.

It is one object of our invention to provide a shelving structure of the character indicated that correct the difiiculties above referred to, and that may be quickly assembled in a cooler without the use of tools.

It is another object of the invention to provide a shelving structure in which each shelf is effectually supported against lateral or vertical displacement without the use of bolts or similar devices, and yet may be quickly and easily detached and removed without danger of displacing any other shelf.

It is also an object to provide a structure of the character indicated that will consist of few parts, be economical to manufacture,

have incorporated therein means for holding material or substance that will prevent ants from reaching the shelves, and onethat will be light in weight, strong, durable, and highly eflicient in its practical application.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side view of a structure embodying our invention, one-half being in section and one-half in elevation.

Figure 2 is a View on line 2-2 of Figure 1,

' part being broken away.

1931. Serial no. 534,582.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Figure 1, part being broken away.

Figure 4 is a isometric perspectiveillustration showing the. method of supporting the uprights on the. supporting spiders.

of the structure showing the method for mounting a shelf in one of the uprights. t

Figure 6 is a mounting.

Figure 7 is a sectional detail showing another method of mounting the pan on they uprights. V V V p I V In the embodiment of the invention herein disclosed we show at "1 a bottom plate having a pair of pins as 2-2 formed thereon to engage recesses 3-3 in the floor 4 of the cooler whereby theplate may be held fixedly in podetail of the top. upright.

' Figure 5 is an enlarged detail of a portion.

sition. In the plate is formed an annular recess 5 to hold a suitable substance, such as oil, for preventing the passage of ants to the central bearing 6.

In ahole 7 bored in the top of the cooler is mounted a sleeve 9, the said sleeve being axially aligned with the bottom bearing 6.

At 10 is shown an annular plate provided with a pin 11'to engagethe bearing 6, and a shoulder 12 to seat upon the said bearing.

On the plate 10 are formed three radially extending arms as 1313--13 of equal length, each arm terminating in an upstanding flange 14 having a notch 15 formed in its upper edge.

, I At 16 is shown a cup-shaped element adapts 1 ed to hold a substance similar to that in plate,

land having a centrally disposed and up wardly directed socket 17. On element 16 are formed three radially extending armsas 181818, each arm terminating in a'downwardly directed flange as 119 having a notch 20 formed therein, thesearms of thesame lengthand spaced the. same as arms'13.

At 212121 are three uprights identical in form. Each uprightis T shaped in trans.

verse cross-section, the web 22 having notches as 23 and 24: formed in its upper and lower. ends whereby the ends of the upright will interlock with'the ends oftwo arms.13 and 18 to space the same and relative rotation.

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7 thickness of the material of which the shelf 28 is made so that the top edge 30 of notch 27 overlaps notch portion 29 as shown.

The shelf 28 is made of sheet metal in the form of an annular pan, the sides being formed by an upstanding flange 31 turned outwardly and backwardly upon itself as at 32 and extending a distance-belowthe bottom of the pan as at 33, the height of the flange 31 being substantially equal to the height of the recess 27 from shoulder 25 to edge 30.

' In assembling the structure the plate 1 -is first placed in position in the bottom of the cooler. A pin 34: is then shoved up through sleeve 9 and dropped back to engage bearing or socket 17 in part 16 after the parts 10-17 have been assembled as described and the pin 11 seated in bearing 6. The several shelves may now be placed in position by seating on shoulders 25 with their bottom edges 33 engaging notch portions 29 and their top edges seated under the top edges 30 of notches 27.

Any one shelf may be readily removed without displacing any other shelf by slightly springing the upright 22 to disengage the edge of the shelf from notch 27 whereby it j may be easily lifted out. The engaging parts 3329 of the other shelves prevent their displacement while the one shelf is being re moved. 7

7 It. may now be seen that we have provided a structure that is simple in form, of few parts, and economical to manufacture, and one that may be quickly assembled on the job by unskilled labor without the use of tools. In-the embodiment shown in Figure 7 a form of shelf 28 is shown wherein the sides 31 are provided with depending tabs'or strips as 3 5, each part 35 being provided with a notch as 36 in its lower end to engage the upright 22 at the bottom of notch 29. By means of this construction a full flange 32 is not required, and movement of the shelf is a vertically disposed revoluble frame includ-v ing top and bottom members having radially disposed arms provided with opposed ter-' minal flanges having opposed notches formed therein, a plurality of T bars having notches formed in their ends whereby to interlock with the opposed flanges and notches to space said members and prevent relative rotation therebetween, said bars having shelf supporting means formed therein,andshelves mounted on said means.

LEON E. DAMPIER. ROLY H. DAMPIER.

prevented by the engagement of notch 36.

v It is to be understood, of course, that while we have herein shown and described but one specific form of the invention, changes in form, construction, and method of assembly .and operation may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

We claim: 1. In a shelf supporting frame, the com- 

